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Hey, if I could read while driving I'd do it.Orlion wrote:Well, I am actually reading itWildling wrote:Firefight: Reckoners, Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson
Well, listening to it really. You know, audiobook and all that ...
No one fully gets Dick, really.ussusimiel wrote: Reading some Philip K. Dick over the last few days: 'Minority Report' and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I continue not to fully get Dick. 'Minority Report' is a novel packed into a short-story and Do Androids....? is a medium-to-long novel trimmed down to 200 pages. I get it that Dick is a great ideas man, but I still struggle to enjoy his stories as I always feel that whole chunks are being left out. He often moves the action from the end of one chapter to the beginning of the next with almost nothing in between except the chapter break.
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That's as good a piece of Vraitherish as I've seen in a while!Vraith wrote:...This is the way of Vraith:Dick:
Countervolution.
Body inherits the most successful traits of your ancestors[aggregate].
Mind inherits the traits they have not.
Eventually there will be convergence.
One becomes [somatically] by bodily exchange of fluids.
One becomes [psychometrically] by fluid exchange of bodies.
One becomes [spiritually] by exchanging of fluidic embodiments.
I've thought about trying Moorcock...ussusimiel wrote:I continue not to fully get Dick.
Heh...I'll take that as some kind of compliment...cuz you put a laughy at the end.ussusimiel wrote:That's as good a piece of Vraitherish as I've seen in a while!Vraith wrote:...This is the way of Vraith:Dick:
Countervolution.
Body inherits the most successful traits of your ancestors[aggregate].
Mind inherits the traits they have not.
Eventually there will be convergence.
One becomes [somatically] by bodily exchange of fluids.
One becomes [psychometrically] by fluid exchange of bodies.
One becomes [spiritually] by exchanging of fluidic embodiments.
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Do it! Peake is superior to Erikson!Vraith wrote:
More topical: someone gave me, for xmas, a book that contains all of the Gormenghast trilogy plus all of the text of the unfinished 4th book, plus a dozen or so lit/crit things about them.
I'm tempted to stop my Erikson/Malazan journey to deal that that....
quandary land...shit.
So far the Way of Kings has been an outstanding setWildling wrote:Finished Reckoners 2 and have started The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive.
Man, am I ever having a hard time getting into this one. It's jumping all over the place and I'm having a hard time giving a damn about finding out WTF is going on.
Yeah, not so much.Fist and Faith wrote:I'd read about them on a list of 25 fantasy must-reads.
You've not read Gormenghast? You're missing out.Fist and Faith wrote:Actually, I was just looking up the Gormenghast books. I'd read about them on a list of 25 fantasy must-reads.
Then again, I would imagine SRD would disagree with AvFist and Faith wrote:It would seem Av disagrees.
And I do believe SRD outranks AvatarSRD wrote:Now "Gormenghast," on the other hand.... I have reveled in those more than once (except for the third book, which in my opinion simply doesn't work).
(03/17/2005)
I liked The Way of Kings, but I imagine Wildling is listening to the audio... which I imagine would be confusing!Rawedge Rim wrote:So far the Way of Kings has been an outstanding setWildling wrote:Finished Reckoners 2 and have started The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive.
Man, am I ever having a hard time getting into this one. It's jumping all over the place and I'm having a hard time giving a damn about finding out WTF is going on.
I'd side with literally everybody else I've seen mention Gormenghast over Av, in this case. Also, the third book's an unpolished mess (thanks to mental illness and, well, death), but it still has Peake's stellar characterisation.Orlion wrote:Then again, I would imagine SRD would disagree with AvFist and Faith wrote:It would seem Av disagrees.
And I do believe SRD outranks AvatarSRD wrote:Now "Gormenghast," on the other hand.... I have reveled in those more than once (except for the third book, which in my opinion simply doesn't work).
(03/17/2005)
You imagine truth.Orlion wrote:I liked The Way of Kings, but I imagine Wildling is listening to the audio... which I imagine would be confusing!Rawedge Rim wrote:So far the Way of Kings has been an outstanding setWildling wrote:Finished Reckoners 2 and have started The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive.
Man, am I ever having a hard time getting into this one. It's jumping all over the place and I'm having a hard time giving a damn about finding out WTF is going on.
It's more than that! We're fighting over Fist's soul! (such as it is).aliantha wrote:Sounds like the stage is set for a Watch Steel-Cage Death Match over Gormenghast.
One does not argue about [Gormenghast]. The young man gives it to the girl with whom he is in love, and, if she does not like it, asks her to return his letters. The older man tries it on his nephew, and alters his will accordingly. The book is a test of character. We can't criticize it, because it is criticizing us. But I must give you one word of warning. When you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are sitting in judgment on my taste, or on the art of [Mervyn Peake]. You are merely sitting in judgment on yourself. You may be worthy: I don't know, But it is you who are on trial.
